Have any staff members been punished prior to becoming staff?

[Elenahh]

Yes, in fact, there is a fair possibility I would not be who I am today if I did not get muted.

Back in April 2018, one of my friends reported me two months after getting killed in a Speed EggWars game and raging hard in party chat. Back then, I could have easily been called one of those toxic tryhards, all I cared about was my Speed EggWars leaderboard and having fun with my friends.

The mute hit me with reality though - I was feeling incredibly remorseful after seeing how I have been looking in people's eyes and what that behavior managed to get me to. Dropped a few tears of happiness after I got unmuted because old evidence : ' ) - the genuine happiness was due to the fact I considered this place my second home and this was a second chance for me to prove myself without having people see the shameful past.

That is how I joined the forums - I had huge desire of proving to be better and wanted to know if I had managed to ruin my chances of obtaining a staff role someday. Everything started with something as small as a mute and interest in a staff role, and grew into something so big, full of great relationships, constant personal development, huge achievements, and much stronger connection with this second home than ever before. Today I am an Admin alongside the person who muted me, @Younisco :P

That is why guys, the past does not matter. The here and now, and the future, are the things that truly matter.

 

[UncleSpect]

My account was compromised once because I logged in at a friend's place, so I was banned after that, oopsie
I also have gotten a warning for swearing after someone created fake evidence of me swearing in the chat. Unfortunately, the evidence seemed legit so I couldn't prove it was faked, so the warning is still valid :c Though I'm fine with it. As a mod I would've done the same thing if there was no proof of evidence being faked.
EDIT: I went to the staff member again who gave the warning, it's finally undone after 2 years by looking into it again!

After all, I'm never really punished for bad behavior/breaking rules. If I get mad because I lost a fight or died in the void again, I only swear out loud or I just quit the game, because I know that swearing in a public chat doesn't help in any way, it's not worth it (or at least not for me, but I hope I'm not the only one).

I agree ahah

 

[Hoshi]

Am I obligated to post here since I am a former staff member?

I’ll just do it anyways because it seems like a lot of fun to reply to this thread.

Before I became a staff member, and before most of my accomplishments and feats regarding CubeCraft, I had already been punished four times. I’ve been banned both twice for cheating as for teaming. Even up until this day, I still do not know what I was thinking back then...

Yes, I did cheat and I did team and it’s all rightful

If we’re talking about punishments in general, I have an entire story about how I got banned in Assassinations as a moderator by the one and only @AlexpYT192. They were doing reports and as I had forgotten to vanish myself, I flew around. Apparently somebody had reported me and Alex came to check, didn’t see my name and wowzers! A ban + blocked connection C:
Up until today, this mesmerizing tale has been passed down to a number of people :D.

Spoiler: Spoiler

(I was a meme)

I’m quite proud of the fact that I have never actually been muted, even though I have been banned four times now. If you want to swear, just shout it out in real life. You’re not going to accomplish anything by doing it in an in-game chat. Instead, you will only get a punishment which isn’t always fun.

Now you all know the story about my punishment history :)
(Or not)

 

[Deleted member 492126]

i like how everyone here is like fake mutes etc while i used to cheat

That's for noobs, I reported myself and got banned

 

[Alexp192]

Alex pro

 

[UncleSpect]

Alex pro

u nub uncle pro

 

[Keanu]

So basically the entire staff team replied wow
I got banned by sentinel once very cool times!
My appeal was a work of art and if someone send it to me I would absolutely DENY it :) so no idea how I got that unban (ty Tacos I guess)
@Keanu if you remember the appeal, have a laugh again

Y E S

 

[Ma7mouD]

Yes I got muted 3 times and I had 1 ban, when I was new to the server I wasn't familiar with the rules CubeCraft had. I didn't know that there were punishments if people said something bad. My first punishment was a mute, someone swore against my mother, so I replied back with a swear word. He made a screen of my expletive and reported me, that's were I got my first mute, Second punishment I got from an former admin called "Quetzi" when Speed EggWars got removed (when a lot of things changed) I got massive angry towards CubeCraft staff haha, it was my favorite game, he was in the lobby and I said to him "go to die instead of removing Speed EggWars", and he muted me for 30 days. Third punishment, that happened when I bypassed, I didn't know that if I got banned that it wasn't allowed to bypass. Someone reported me for it, and I got permanently banned, well that's a long history haha

The lesson from all of this is that due to all the punishments I got, I learned a lot and ignited my interest to be a staff member, I think if all this didn't happen you wouldn't see me as a staff member today haha.

 

[Technosword]

Am I the only staff that hasn't been punished? xd

No I’m a role follower too :)

Up until today, this mesmerizing tale has been passed down to a number of people :D

This is so funny it makes me laugh every time I don’t even know why

 

[Hazard]

 

[Hoshi]

This is so funny it makes me laugh every time I don’t even know why

I can understand why, because it still makes me laugh as well. Now we know that moderators can ban other moderators...

 

[Dutchyyy]

Wow everyone here has been punished

I'm boring and have 0 punishments :(

I'll give you one <3

 

[Axyy]

I got banned once because my account was compromised 1406 days ago.

 

[Ducky]

Since like so many people from the staff team replied, I'll add on as well.

I have been muted twice, warned once and banned once.

I got muted once (my first mute) for spamming because a friend of mine reported my spam in her /tell message to see if I could actually get muted for it. I appealed for it that I was really sorry (stupid reason and most obvious reason lol) and I got unmuted.

My second mute was for, and I am for real, I have no clue anymore, It's been too long for me to remember that mute. The only thing I know is that I appealed and I got unmuted due to my appeal. So my both mutes were undone because I appealed.

My warning is for swearing. Back in the days when they introduced a new Skywars lobby (and I was a tryhard back then) the lobby was awful (in my opinion ) so I swore in chat while there was a Mod in the lobby (pretty stupid) and so I immediately got warned.

My false ban was a cheating ban by Sentinel. I didn't record at that time unfortunately, but because I made a detailed appeal and told them what I was doing before I got banned, I got unbanned after like 30 minutes.

 

[Fisktratt]

I'm clean :)

 

[UncleSpect]

Im not staff but I was muted wrong too :/

 

[Priley]

Damn... Guess I'll join in on the party

Got banned twice for hacking, once by Sophie and a second time by Lezappen after being reported by @Megaaa
Got banned once for teaming, in Infection. One could argue this ban wasn't justified - teaming was very poorly defined, especially for such a game.
Got banned twice for having a compromised account.

Got muted twice for swearing, once by Cynamooo and a second time by AnimalTamer1.

TOTAL BANS: 5
TOTAL MUTES: 2

 

[Deleted member 492126]

TOTAL BANS: 5
TOTAL MUTES: 2

We have a winner

 

[Kloska]

I've never been punished on the Minecraft server itself, however, I was banned by spam protection on the forums (got it back after an email to support) by simply not being online for ages after creating the account. I was also falsely banned from the reports site due to a strange client-side glitch affecting how my chat as well as holograms looked like. That issue was solved the same day with help from @FluffyRoses.

 

[Megaaa]

Ban 1: Using Kill Aura in the lobby. (My friend thought it was funny to hack on my account)
Ban 2: Again falsey banned for hacking.
Ban 3: Banned for Anti-Knockback but it was the old Skywars ability where you get less knockback.
Ban 4: Banned for innapropriate name. I just said hi to Marco and I got banned by him. It was like a 5 minutes ban.
Ban 5: Teaming in solo skywars.

Mute 1: Targetting chat offence.
Mute 2: by @telegamer , for saying 'rtrd'.
Mute 3: Swearing

I think @Priley and I were good boys.